In the bluest of blue states, red is gaining traction. I have only recently been following the Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown ® and Martha Coakley (D), mainly because I expected a quick victory for the most liberal candidate. Apparently, conventional wisdom is being bucked as we speak. Scott Brown took a lead in the polls, ever so slim, and Coakley, the expected winner, may just snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The surprising thing is that Coakley’s failure is being seen as… well… surprising. To put it nicely: she’s a moron and a puppet of the Left. Just running a cursory search of things she has said and done reveal what is expected from the Democrats: utter detachment from reality. Here’s some clips:

Ironically, the Taliban just launched a brazen attack on the capital city of Afghanistan yesterday. I wonder what alternate reality she lives in…

Here’s a beautiful quote from a lobbyist attending one of Coakley’s fundraisers recently, something that runs contrary to the whole “party of the people” image due to the presence of health care industry lobbyists and the impact this election would have on the health care reform bill:

Indeed, change we can all believe in. Of course, being initiated into the Imperial Democrats’ den of corruption, kickbacks, and culture of bribery is not too surprising to intelligent folks out there, but we aren’t talking about those people, we are talking about those who have been indoctrinated in far Left propaganda for years and blindly follow any ass running for office, pun intended. If these were not enough reasons, Brown skillfully puts together an ad criticizing Coakley for pinning all of her foreign policy experience on her sister who lives abroad. Craziness indeed.

Here’s some more fun where she talks about how she wants to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and her saying that America will always have open borders.

The rest of Coakley’s incompetence is right there, in her own words, on television, and on the internet. Amid a recession she parrots the Obama line about raising taxes. While America begs Washington to change or re-do the health care reform bill, hers is the vote that will make it all possible, saddling her state with an even greater economic burden. The list goes on…

The other side of story is one that concerns me the most. Whether MA goes red or blue does not matter too much. Like the election after Bush which benefited the Left, widespread disaffection with the party in power and an empowered conservative base make Republican gains in this state more possible than before. Unfortunately, the person we have running for office is automatically getting rewarded for not being a Democrat… when the reality is that he may be more moderate than most conservatives would like. Without a doubt, if I could, I would vote for him, at least for the chance to save our country from the ravages of Obama’s health care fascism, but what I worry about is how much we are willing to compromise. In how many other states will we be forced to choose between a Democrat government on steroids and a Republican who will sell out? We will always tell ourselves, “yeah, just this time, because it really counts,” but when won’t it “really count?” Conservatives must draw a line when it comes to supporting liberals in elephants’ clothing and be willing to stay in the minority if the Republicans keep advocating “moderation” (especially in the fiscal sense). As a general rule of thumb, I think that conservatives, tactically, should vote for moderate Republicans in blue states and more conservative ones in purple and red states… otherwise, the cycle of big government Republican and big government Democrat will just keep repeating.

In the interest of fairness, I will post one of Coakley’s attack ads against Brown. Here she viciously attacks him for being…. REPUBLICAN!! Oh the horror.

What’s funny about this ad is that it is wrong on the facts and it misspelled the name of her state… not a good move. Furthermore, it’s a very weak attack even by far leftist standards… a picture of Bush and Cheney? Really? Looks like it’s straight out of the hope-and-change express’s playbook. All in all, it is still possible that she may win and if she does then Massachusetts will have definitely been [refer to title].

-AG